The limitations you are willing to accept establish the boundaries of your existence. — Erwin McManus
Cultural confinement takes place when a curator imposes his own limits on an art exhibition, rather than asking an artist to set his limits. — Robert Smithson
Limitation makes the creative mind inventive. — Walter Gropius
Inability is often the mother of restriction, and restriction is the great mother of inventive performance. — Holger Czukay
Your only limitations are those you set up in your mind, or permit others to set up for you. — Og Mandino
By setting limitations, we must choose the essential. So in everything you do, learn to set limitations. — Leo Babauta
Form is a straitjacket in the way that a straitjacket was a straitjacket for Houdini. — Paul Muldoon
Practice restraint over the following: appetite, first, as well as sleep, lust, and anger. — Pythagoras
Your effort to remain what you are is what limits you. — Masamune Shirow
Control success before it controls you. — Dwight Yoakam
To say a grid is limiting is to say that language is limiting, or typography is limiting. It is up to us to use these media critically or passively. — Ellen Lupton
The more a person limits himself, the more resourceful he becomes. — Soren Kierkegaard
More than ambition, more than ability, it is rules that limit contribution; rules are the lowest common denominator of human behavior. They are a substitute for rational thought. — Hyman Rickover
Freedom doesn't mean the absence of all restrictions. It means possessing unshakable conviction in the face of any obstacle. — Daisaku Ikeda
Short Restriction Quotes
I don't believe there should be any restrictions when it comes to firearms. None. — Gary Johnson
I tried calorie restriction and couldn't do it. It's really hard to be hungry all the time. — David Sinclair
A covenant made with God should be regarded not as restrictive but as protective. — Russell M. Nelson
Love isn't restricted by time because every minute and every second creates beautiful memories. — Jaejoong
Habits do not restrict freedom. They create it. — James Clear
What you build today will either empower or restrict you tomorrow. — Gary Keller
Caffeine restricts blood flow to the brain. — Daniel Amen
The downfall of most diets is that they restrict your intake of food. — Fran Lebowitz
Progress imposes not only new possibilities for the future but new restrictions. — Norbert Wiener
Too Much Restriction Quotes
Beware of confining yourself to a particular belief and denying all else, for much good would elude you - indeed, the knowledge of reality would elude you. Be in yourself a matter for all forms of belief, for God is too vast and tremendous to be restricted to one belief rather than another. — Ibn Arabi
And you can't have a prosperous economy when the government is way overspending, raising tax rates, printing too much money, over regulating and restricting free trade. It just can't be done. — Arthur Laffer
The worst diets are ones that restrict your calories too much and try to trick your body. You have no energy, and it's ridiculous. — Laura Prepon
I enjoy playing with a big band occasionally, but it's too restricting; you really don't have a chance to stretch out and do what you want to do. Getting that thing of relating to a large band is great experience; I relate much better, though, if it's a small band. — Art Pepper
Food Restrictions Quotes
My framework around nutrition is that there are three big levers you can always be pulling with food: dietary restriction, time restriction, and caloric restriction. — Peter Attia
A great many people in Los Angeles are on special diets that restrict their intake of synthetic foods. The reason for this appears to be a widely held belief that organically grown fruits and vegetables make the cocaine work faster. — Fran Lebowitz
It is a tragedy that religion for us means, today, nothing more than restrictions on food and drink, nothing more than adherence to absence of superiority and inferiority. — Mahatma Gandhi
My parents didn't really restrict my movement, so I got involved in the underground music scene and the activism scene; I was doing some volunteering in food relief. I spent a lot of time throughout the city in poor areas, even though my family lived in a wealthy area. — Jess Row
I have a very, very healthy relationship with food in that I eat whatever I want, whenever I want. I never restrict quantities or types of food. — Portia de Rossi
I never, ever, restrict food, and I will never go on a diet ever again. — Portia de Rossi
Age Restriction Quotes
We learned at an early age that it was men's interpretation of our religion that restricted women's opportunities, not our religion itself. Islam in fact had been quite progressive toward women from its inception. — Benazir Bhutto
The characteristic mark of this age of dictators, wars and revolutions is its anticapitalistic bias. Most governments and political parties were eager to restrict the sphere of private initiative and free enterprise. — Ludwig von Mises
Sexually progressive cultures gave us literature, philosophy, civilization and the rest, while sexually restrictive cultures gave us the Dark Ages and the Holocaust. — Alan Moore
What was exciting in the Victorian Age, would leave a man of franker epoch quite unmoved. The more prudes restrict the permissible degree of sexual appeal, the less is required to make such an appeal effective. — Bertrand Russell
Next year, I hope there will be even more parties, lots of holidays and just having a good time, really. Plus wing-walking, air shows and learning to fly, as they are all things I want to do. I won't be restricted by age. — Carol Vorderman
But from the perspective of the aging parent, there is no major difference between four and fifteen, except that when your child is four, his motoring privileges are restricted to little toy Fisher-Price vehicles which are unlikely (although I would not totally rule it out in America) to sue you. — Dave Barry
Anybody who wants to make television has a tremendous problem because it's a financially restrictive media in this day and age. — David Jason
The teaching that we receive is not necessarily very accurate. The value systems that our cultures have developed are not every open. They are very restrictive. We live in an age that is not enlightened. — Frederick Lenz
The 'Tarahumara' use their legs 'as designed.' By running at a young age with minimal footwear, they naturally develop the best biomechanical use of their legs. Cushioned shoes restrict foot movements and allow for over-striding. Short strides are natural. — Christopher McDougall
The record in the Federal Court discloses that (the NCI) took sides and sought in every way to hinder, suppress and restrict...(a) treatment of cancer. — Benedict Fitzgerald
Restriction Love Quotes
If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction that never fails to lay stress on a plus and a minus. — Emma Goldman
But if the feelings are mutual, I open my heart without restriction. I’m not afraid to say 'I love you'. — Bill Kaulitz
Every January, millions adopt a harsh deprivation-restriction mindset and begin punishing themselves, physically and mentally. Yes, harsh tactics can work for a few weeks. But the reason they don't tend to last is because they come from a place of lack, not from a place of love. — Rangan Chatterjee
What men call love is a very small, restricted, feeble thing compared with this ineffable orgy, this divine prostitution of the soul giving itself entire, all its poetry and all its charity, to the unexpected as it comes along, to the stranger as he passes. — Charles Baudelaire
Just as love is an orientation which refers to all objects and is incompatible with the restriction to one object, so is reason a human faculty which must embrace the whole of the world with which man is confronted. — Erich Fromm
I love the opportunity to just let my imagination run riot! Non-fiction can be very restrictive. — Raymond Buckland
This was life! Ah, how he loved it! Civilization held nothing like this in its narrow and circumscribed sphere, hemmed in by restrictions and conventionalities. Even clothes were a hindrance and a nuisance. At last he was free. He had not realized what a prisoner he had been. — Edgar Rice Burroughs
The goal isn't to be restrictive or tight about what passes through the altar (your mouth) and into the temple (your body). It's to create sustainable and consistent energy for every deserving cell in your body. That, my friends, is true love. — Kris Carr
The power of belief, of God is beyond what mere mortals can Imagine. There is no restrictions in my Life. If I do what I love, work night and day, and I'm open to the spirits. that's when the "Greats" take over. — Richard Cabral
I just love where I am right now in my career. I love country music. I don't ever feel restricted by the genre. I've been able to have a solid career that we've built one step at a time and a family. I know that I'm in a good place. — Martina McBride
Constraint Quotes
Love withers under constraints: its very essence is liberty: it is compatible neither with obedience, jealousy, nor fear. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
The problem with government-provided money is that its hardness depends entirely on the ability of those in charge to not inflate its supply. Only political constraints provide hardness, and there are no physical, economic, or natural constraints. — Saifedean Ammous
The photograph is an undeniably powerful medium. Free from the constraints of language, and harnessing the unique qualities of a single moment frozen in time. — Steve McCurry
There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect. — Ronald Reagan
In most organizational change efforts, it is much easier to draw on the strengths of the culture than to overcome the constraints by changing the culture. — Edgar Schein
There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all. Without creativity, there would be no progress, and we would be forever repeating the same patterns. — Edward De Bono
Start with Gold. Eliminate complexity, corruption, constraint, convention, contention, & inflation. Substitute speed, power, intelligence, equity, ability & accessibility. Finish with Bitcoin. — Michael Saylor
Approved attributes and their relation to face make every man his own jailer; this is a fundamental social constraint even though each man may like his cell. — Erving Goffman
Deep Learning is a form of human-assisted but mostly constraint-driven software development. It works because a particular smooth relaxation of program space allows a surprisingly efficient and effective local search. Something like that, my favorite definition. — Andrej Karpathy
As long as people use tactics to oppress or restrict other people from being free, there is work to be done. — Rosa Parks
Unless we put medical freedom into the Constitution, the time will come when medicine will organize into an undercover dictatorship to restrict the art of healing to one class of Men and deny equal privileges to others; the Constitution of the Republic should make a Special privilege for medical freedoms as well as religious freedom. — Benjamin Rush
We run, not because we think it is doing us good, but because we enjoy it and cannot help ourselves...The more restricted our society and work become, the more necessary it will be to find some outlet for this craving for freedom. No one can say, 'You must not run faster than this, or jump higher than that.' The human spirit is indomitable. — Roger Bannister
To all earth's creatures God has given the broad earth, the springs, the rivers and the forests, giving the air to the birds, and the waters to those who live in water, giving abundantly to all the basic needs of life, not as a private possession, not restricted by law, not divided by boundaries, but as common to all, amply and in rich measure. — Gregory of Nazianzus
I personally lost 50 pounds not by restricting my food but by adding more fiber-rich foods to my diet and eating them until I felt full. I was shocked to find that the solution was abundance, not restriction—and that food quality was more important than food quantity. Why hadn’t I been taught this in medical school? — Will Bulsiewicz
It's been known since 1916 that cutting back calories is beneficial in every organism it's been tested on - from yeast to worms to mice to monkeys. I think it would be a surprise if we are an exception to that rule. — David Sinclair
A person who doesn't breathe deeply reduces the life of his body. If he doesn't move freely, he restricts the life of his body. If he doesn't feel fully, he narrows the life of his body. And if his self-expression is constricted, he limits the life of his body. — Alexander Lowen
We experience ourselves our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. — Albert Einstein
If the U.S. had been restricted to its pre-Louisiana Purchase borders, it would have struggled to become a great power. — Tim Marshall
The rule seemed to be that a great woman must either die unwed ... or find a still greater man to marry her. ... The great man, on the other hand, could marry where he liked, not being restricted to great women; indeed, it was often found sweet and commendable in him to choose a woman of no sort of greatness at all. — Dorothy L. Sayers
War has all the characteristics of socialism most conservatives hate: Centralized power, state planning, false rationalism, restricted liberties, foolish optimism about intended results, and blindness to unintended secondary results. — Joseph Sobran
Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us. — William O. Douglas
Woman has so long been subject to the disabilities and restrictions with which her progress has been embarrassed that she has become enervated, her mind to some extent paralyzed; and like those still more degraded by personal bondage she hugs her chains. — Lucretia Mott
The human instinct to protect one’s beliefs from the indignity of being challenged transcends an individual’s political orientation. It is a frailty of the human spirit, and as such, it is not restricted to liberals or conservatives. Few people possess the intellectual courage to expose their most cherished positions to opposing perspectives. The human ego is brittle and frail. — Gad Saad
Weirdly enough, the best thing for my mental health was giving into my innate nature to work. And the most depressed I get is when I try to restrict it, like, 'I don't work weekends' or 'I don't work this day.' — MrBeast
Linguistics will have to recognise laws operating universally in language, and in a strictly rational manner, separating general phenomena from those restricted to one branch of languages or another. — Ferdinand De Saussure
Never say never Never is a long, undependable time, and life is too full of rich possibilities to have restrictions placed upon it. — Gloria Swanson
Someone with little more than a simplistic weekend training course in acupuncture or kinesiology can set themselves up as an expert and convince a vulnerable person to part with their cash and take potentially harmful treatments or to follow restrictive diets. — Tim Spector
In truth, the only restrictions on our capacity to astonish ourselves and each other are imposed by our own minds. — David Blaine
Nothing but widespread suffering will produce any effect on Congress... Our only safety is in pursuing a steady course of firm restriction - and I have no doubt that such a course will ultimately lead to restoration of the currency and the re-charter of the bank. — Nicholas Biddle
If the purpose of your fast is caloric restriction and weight loss, I don't see how coffee is breaking that. — Peter Attia
The territory of the Japanese islands makes up a country that is bigger than France or Germany. However, 3/4 of the land is not conducive to human habitation, especially in the mountainous regions, and only 13% is suitable for intensive cultivation. This leaves the Japanese living in close proximity to each other along the coastal plains and in restricted inland areas. — Tim Marshall
As far back as the 1970s, though, there have been observational studies that strongly suggested long-term calorie restriction could help humans live longer and healthier lives, too. — David Sinclair
I'm against voter fraud in any form, and I have long supported a national voter ID card. But ID cards need not - and must not - restrict voting rights in any way, shape or form. — Andrew Young
The New York Times editorial page is like a Ouija board that has only three answers, no matter what the question. The answers are: higher taxes, more restrictions on political speech and stricter gun control. — Ann Coulter
Protectionism is a misnomer. The only people protected by tariffs, quotas and trade restrictions are those engaged in uneconomic and wasteful activity. Free trade is the only philosophy compatible with international peace and prosperity. — Walter Block
If by some fiat I had to restrict all this writing to one sentence, this is the one I would choose: The summit of Mt. Everest is marine limestone. — John McPhee
The hope of internet anarchists was that repressive governments would have only two options: accept the internet with its limitless possibilities of spreading information, or restrict internet access to the ruling elite and turn your back on the 21st century, as North Korea has done. — Peter Singer
A person whose skin is metallic can no more have its reproduction restricted than a black-skinned person. Regarding life as a form of machinery and intelligent machines as people without our environmental limitations is essential in understanding FAP, the Final Anthropic Principle, which deals with evolution in the far future. — Frank J. Tipler
Among pacifists it was above all the English who always insisted on the importance of disarmament. They said that the man in the street would not understand the kind of pacifism that neglected to demand immediate restriction of armaments. — Ludwig Quidde
The illegitimate use of a state by economic interests for their own ends is based upon a preexisting illegitimate power of the state to enrich some persons at the expense of others. Eliminate that illegitimate power of giving differential economic benefits and you eliminate or drastically restrict the motive for wanting political influence. — Robert Nozick
The key to the utilization of atomic energy for world peace will be found in the will of all people to restrict its use for the betterment of mankind. — Leslie Groves
The desire to be good to all with no restrictions - not in the quantity of those to whom we are good nor in the quality of the good we perform - that is the inner nucleus of the essence of the soul of Israel. — Abraham Isaac Kook
Freedom of thought and freedom of speech in our great institutions are absolutely necessary for the preservation of our country. The moment either is restricted, liberty begins to wither and die. — John Peter Altgeld
On this day, when we're celebrating our constitutional heritage, I urge you to be faithful to that heritage - to impose on our fellow citizens only the restrictions that are there in the Constitution, not invent new ones, not to invent the right because it's a good idea. — Antonin Scalia
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